Back in the Saddle.... Again!

The last few weeks have been interesting, to say the least. I have found myself making bad.. no, terrible.. food choices. The food choices were not becauses I was busy and had to grab something quick, they were deliberate and planned food choices. I was eating cake for breakfast... cake for lunch.. cake for dinner, chips here and there. I have felt terrible, bloated, weighed down, miserable actually. So today, I told myself I was going to focus on protein, drink more water, get back to the basics. Well, no success. I made better food choices, much less crap because all that stuff is out of the house, but I managed to dump on Cheerios and milk this afternoon. I was craving the carbs so badly. And still am. I ate cheese and chips for dinner. Tomorrow is a new day. I will wake up with a happy pouch and my promise to my pouch is to be good to it. I will focus on protein and if I must have carbs I will make good choice, like vegetables! Thanks for letting me confess!! Diane

Diane Good for you for being responsible to know that you made the choices to eat poorly. I would love to blame everything else other than me but it all boils down to personal choice. I was supposed to try to lose weight over the holidays because I am having knee surgery next week, but I ended up gaining a couple of pounds. As of tomorrow, I am back to protein and no white carbs. The lifelong battle...

Holly, Yeah, we all knew we were in this for life, that having WLS wasn't a quick fix. Last Christmas was so much easier, still a fairly fresh post-op and I hadn't experimented with a lot of food by then, so I was cautious. This year threw caution to the wind, baby! Today will be a much better day. I actually return to work today, I have been out of the office since December 21. I will be busy the rest of this week, catching up for being out. Which probably means I will have less time to search out food I am bringing healthy snack and healthy meals to work and lots of water. Good luck today!! Diane

Hi Diane! Right there with ya babe! I made TERRIBLE food choices over the holidays. Thank goodness it is out of the house now! And today is pay day so I'm going to the store and stocking up on good food. And I'm back to the gym today too. A good fresh start for the new year! I managed to gain 3 pounds over the holidays and that scared me. I need to get back with the program! Deanna

Deanna, I find it so hard to get back on track. Today, some better food choices, but I still dipped into the chocolate and did not drink as much water as I should have. So goal for tomorrow is to get in 64 oz of water and avoid chocolate and other candies. I guess it's baby steps for the next few days for me. Diane

Confessions of eaters!! I,too, did horrible over the holidays! I gained 3-4 pounds!! It scared me!! My sons girlfriend brought over half a blueberry pie last night and when I get home it is going in the trash!! I feel so bad that I don't dump on anything! So by choice I try to stay away from all those sweets!!! But it just didn't work that way over the holidays!! I don't even remember eating a descent meal or a good meal for me! I think I snacked on junk the whole time I was off work,too! I have been off since the 21st and am back to work today and trying really hard!! So my new years resolution is to get back on track and get to my gosl weight..hopefully!! Am going to really try hard!!

Karen, This weekend I am going to work on starting the 5 day pouch test ... again! I feel so much more in control when I do liquids for a few days. No food decisions need to be made, just which flavor protein drink. It really helped me to get to goal and should be able to knock off the 5 lbs I packed on. Diane

Right there with you all! Sounds like we all know what to do...so let's dust ourselves off and start anew...remember changing one bad habit at a time makes it easier to stick to. For me now more sweets...then I will move onto the dreaded white carbs! Trish

Trish, It is so much easier to do it when I'm not all addicted to carbs again!! Plan is to beat the carb monster this weekend with the 5 day pouch test. By Monday am, I should feel as good as new. Diane

Now come on girls... I'm going to be the straight talker here - don't be so hard on yourselves! This is a life thing, it was Christmas/holidays. How much would you have gained before wls? I bet if you'd only gained what you did this year you would have been celebrating right now. Put this all into perspective. You now have the knowledge and the ability to work and get off that which you've gained. So put it behind you, draw a line under it and if the line gets erased a bit at times, just re-draw it the next day. PS I'll be joining you in the back to eating right and making wise choices as I too did exactly as you all did. I'm no saint here either!!!